Battle of Nanking

The Battle of Nanking was an engagement fought in early December 1937 between the National Revolutionary Army of China and the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War for control of the city of Nanking, the capital of the Republic of China.

Chinese soldiers injured during the Battle of Nanking receiving treatment from Japanese army medics at a field hospital set up inside the building of the Chinese Foreign Ministry(Date: December 20 1937)

Japanese army medics giving free medical care to Chinese refugees(Date: December 20 1937)

Japanese army doctors re-dressing a patient's wound(Date: December 30 1937)

Japanese army medics treating Chinese children for trachoma(Date: December 30 1937)